Showing posts with label conjunctivitis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conjunctivitis. Show all posts

11/27/2008

Stye - Symptoms and treatment

A stye is a painful inflammation, such as a grain of pus, whose origin is infection from the base of the lashes. You can engage the upper eyelid or lower, and usually evolves spontaneously according to a very rapid cycle of no more than 48 hours.
On some occasions, the picture is a little more complex, since it forms a tip of pus with intense pain. Where is the eyelid, may catch the eye while reaching almost closed. Anyway, not in any danger and can be treated at home without difficulty.

SYMPTOMS
• The eyelid becomes red coloration is swollen and hurts a lot.

• Inflammatory Process, the appearance of a tip with or without pus with an inflamed base.

Treatment
• Prepare a chamomile tea with warm water, soak a cotton and makes encouraging local press gently on the affected area. Perform this exercise for five minutes and Repeat several times a day.

• When action by the heat can leave the pus remove gently with cotton soaked in hot water.

• If the infection does not improve after the fourth day, presents eye (conjunctivitis) or the red eye and eyelid, please consult your doctor.

10/01/2008

Eyes, healing massage for children

Does the child have the eyes moist? Consulting with the pediatrician. Almost surely, is due to a partial blockage of the duct lacrimonasal (dacrioestenosis). This blockage can be defeated by a massage with your fingers from the eyes to the nose, in downstream.

The maneuver is repeated three or four times a day until the disorder references to six months. If you do not disappear, an ophthalmologist can perform a duct probing. The dacrioestenosis favors infection of the conjunctiva.

4/23/2008

Red eyes

The redness shows up in all the forms and sizes, although you are only worrying if you persist more than two days, or you accompany of pain or of any type of secretion.

The good known cause is the conjunctivitis, very contagious infection. It can also be a cause a pool with a lot of chlorine, or a break of a blood vessel, among other.

To prevent it or to alleviate the red, tearful eyes or with itch, you are to have much care with the products of cleaning. You should only be tried to use handkerchiefs descartables and soaps, cosmetics and detergents without perfuming; you are very probable that the cause is an allergy to those products.

You are also to ventilate the eyepiece globes at nights. The continuous use of contact len produces a rub in the cornea, and ésto it can cause fissures that take to an infection; the eyeglasses are also a barrier for the oxygen and they encourage the development of bacteria. for that reason, you are fundamental to retire them during the night.

Also, you always suit to be protected with specific products. The artificial tears that are bandaged without necessity of prescription physician, can alleviate the red eyes because of the dry air or for the rooms full with fume.

12/17/2007

Allergy to the Medicines

In general terms, the answer of our organism to the entry of a chemical substance with therapeutical ends obeys a laws that are subject to the share farmacodinámica of the used medicine whose toxicity grade or harmfulness has been studied previously. But it is not room for doubt that, in a certain number of patients, this pharmacological share theoretically foregone it escapes from the orbit of the communio one and the individual responds from an accidental way to the oral or parenteral management of a medicine. Doing without more or less of theories ingenious and truthful, it is possible that the accidents caused by the medicines can be classified in the following way:
1-high grade of toxicity of the used medicine and whose symptoms show up in most of the cases.
2-certain patients, for different reasons and as soon as determined, but not related with the allergy, they don't tolerate, like it is current, the chemical substances. To procure a pharmacological desirable share, it becomes precise to be administered them to much pettier and more unusual dose. We speak then of intolerance.
3-in some occasions, the effects that are expected are absolutely cross to those that it was logical to wait. It is about a personal paradox and it is for example what happens, when when giving an antihistamínico that averagely produces drowsiness, the individual it responds with a nervous general excitabilidad, desorbitada and unforeseeable; we could speak then of idiosyncrasy, in the sense fully etymological of the word.
4-in other cases, the fellow can enter, immediately to the entry of the medicine, whichever it is the nature of this and the contact modality, a type of divorced reaction completely dela nature of the substance and of his share farmacodinámica. It connects it with what the physicians are accustomed to see when they speak of syndromes anafilácticos or allergic. The word allergy should be reserved for this reaction type that involves a sensitization; it doesn't import now, and here, if in the antecedents they are allergy traces or not, and if they believe to know or on the contrary to ignore, the mechanism humoral or cellular that has unchained it.
5-finally, it exists another group of patients that, in front of the entry of a chemical substance of the type medicine, they unchain shocks with circulatory immediate failure that you/they very possibly owe you to the release of a substance called histamine whose pharmacological affection is the responsible for the serious dysfunctions. The relationships that can exist among the lawsuit, the allergic etiology and the pathogenetic unchaining mechanism, the histamine, they cannot be described here.

Until another type of anomalous answers to the medicines, such as those that in fact show up when discontinuing them; still in case, until that moment, they were very supported; it constitutes it an answer rarity that, for the unusual thing, we only mention it.

The clinical boxs to that the allergy medicamentosa can give place are extremely varied, I eat for example: shock of the type anafiláctico that is the most serious in these accidents; syndrome similar to the illness of the serum; fever medicamentosa, possibly many times to the own antibiotics and whose appearance suspicion outlines the physician a therapeutical query quite difficult of resolving; alterations cellular hemáticas; asthmatic crisis, rinitis and allergic conjunctivitis; cutaneous manifestations, of the erythema type, urticaria, edema, eczema; and hepatic, renal and gastrointestinal alterations.

12/16/2007

Conjunctivitis

The conjunctivitis is the inflammation of the conjunctival one whose nature is almost always of extraneous origin, and there are them of diverse classes. They receive the microbial agent's name that produces them and they can be catarrhal, purulentas, membranous, flictenuares, among other. One can suffer in an acute or chronic way, but the exact diagnostic determines it the oculist.

If he/she doesn't get complicated the cornea, the conjunctivitis sick person it notes the appearance of foreign bodies, nuisances to the light or fotofobia, pain, difficulty in the visual effort and fleeting enturbiamiento more or less repeated of the vision, with general ledger or pettier secretion of exudates that can be filiform, serous or purulentos, according to the conjunctivitis class that is suffered. to the awakening, the lids are more or less sticky, edematosos and red. The slot of the lids diminishes of size and the conjunctival tumefacta is observed, red and frequently with petty ecchymosis, that is to say, by way of petty haemorrhages localized in the funds of sack conjuntivales.

For the treatment of these conjunctivitis, diverse collyriums can be used that exist in the market: of astringent type for the filiform secretions, sulfamidados in the serous exudations, and antibiotics in the forms purulentas. Nevertheless, it should be had it enters that of not being appraised an immediate improvement, it is preferable to consult to the expert who will determine the conjunctivitis type and their perfect treatment and cure exactly forthwith.

He/she suits to remember that the conjunctivitis chronicles or not well treated they are much more difficult of curing and they can produce complications in the cornea. In the children, more specifically in the newly born ones, special care should be had, making sure that an obstruction of the channels excretoras doesn't exist. Be like outside, he/she should be treated the conjunctivitis as soon as possible to avoid serious complications in the cornea that you/they can affect in the future to the vision. The conjunctivitis gonocócicas, diftéricas or variolosas, they are extraordinarily serious for who suffers them.

Non debit side to forget the conjunctivitis tracomatosa that although in the last years it has fallen vastly in importance, they continue existing cases in an endemic way, susceptible of infection and of chronic path, as the spring conjunctivitis that charges vigor annually in the station changes.

Finally, he/she suits to keep in mind that the conjunctival one is susceptible of suffering different tumors, benign or malignant, for what you/they should not be neglected never, although they don't produce pains and not even nuisances. It is advisable to consult to the family doctor who will indicate the convenience that he/she sees them the oculist.

A curious formation conjuntival, in general benign that usually leaves of the interior angle of the eye toward the cornea, with trend to cover it, it is the pterygium, called this way by their form and light transmission that make it similar to the wing of an insect. If this pterygium of dilatory path, is progressive, it requires surgical treatment.